Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

There were initially five people kneeling in front of Yue Fei's tomb, but later there were only four.

There are different opinions on this.

Some people think that future generations who worship Yue Fei always want to smash something to vent their anger, so they smashed the most damaged kneeling statue.

Some people thought that the five kneeling statues were not symmetrical, so they smashed the smallest one.

Some people think that the first four kneeling statues are very famous, but the last one has too little fame and official position, and is not worthy of kneeling in front of Grandpa Yue’s tomb.

The kneeling statue that was removed is named Luo Ruji. At this moment, he is serving as the Hanyin County Magistrate in Jinzhou!

Historically, this man clung to Qin Hui, reaching the highest level of Minister of Civil Affairs and Zhilong Tuge.

After receiving the official document from the state government, Luo Ruji immediately became motivated: "Assemble your troops and horses, this county will personally destroy the temple of obscenity. The government officials, archers, and archers will all be rewarded!"

This thing will not offend any boss, and after the obscenity temple is destroyed, the temple property can be confiscated by the county government, and even Ju Ming does not ask for a share. It can also be listed as a political achievement, which is useful in grinding and surveying. After it is spread, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism will all praise him.

Without further ado, Luo Ruji took the officials and went out in a furious manner.

The local subordinates knew where there was a temple for prostitution, and some even worshiped it secretly, because the God of Five Tongs was a partial god of wealth. Now that there is reward money to be collected, the God of Wealth is of no use, so first destroy the reward reward.

Take a boat to the intersection of Han River and Ren River (Ren River). There is currently only one grass market here, called "Renshuikou". It is said that Zhang Ziyang, the ancestor of Xue Daoguang, once practiced Taoism here. Later generations established a county and named it Ziyang County.

To the west of Renshuikou, the Han River is narrow and the current is very fast. Ships are often destroyed and people are killed.

I don’t know where there is a saying that the Wutong God can keep the ship safe. As a result, the Wutong Temple in the town became more prosperous, and businessmen coming and going went to pay homage.

"Surround the Yin Temple immediately and don't let anyone go!" Luo Ruji shouted before they even reached the shore.

The government officials were also inexplicably excited. They rushed forward with swords, guns and sticks, causing chaos at the town dock. The people thought these guys were here to collect taxes.

Until the Wutong Temple was surrounded, the people inside finally felt that something was wrong.

A merchant was passing by here by boat and took his entourage to the temple to ask for blessings. Before they finished burning the incense, they heard a noise outside, and the merchant quickly went out to check the situation.

"There is a rich man here, he must be involved in harvesting and harvesting!" The subordinate official directly blamed him.

In a daze, the merchant was pushed to the ground, and he shouted in horror: "I'm not a local, I'm from out of town, I just passed by to worship God!"

Luo Ruji glanced at him and ordered: "This guy has a cunning appearance. He is not a kind person at first glance. He will be taken back to the county government and tortured."

The merchant knew that he would not be spared and had to spend money to eliminate the disaster, so he hurriedly shouted: "I am willing to pay a copper fine to atone for my sin!"

The amount of copper fine depends on the seriousness of the crime.

Anyway, when the merchant left Hanyin County, more than half of the fleet's goods were fined. He could only use the remaining belongings to sell to local medicine merchants, exchange for some medicinal materials, and transport them back to his hometown.

"Xing San, why are you here?" The government official actually met an acquaintance.

The guy named Xing San said: "I was laid off by the government, so I went to the temple to hang out. Why are you here?"

"Okay, you are actually a traitor to the evil god! Catch him!" The official's face changed instantly.

Illegal toll stations and evil temples are mostly built in Hekou Cao Market. The former is convenient for collecting taxes and making money, while the latter is used to store incense. Ju Ming sent people to inspect various counties. The column heads did not dare to set up card collection anymore. They only retained the tax collection function for small town shops, and redundant tax collectors were eliminated on the spot.

These tax collectors lost their livelihood and went directly to the prostitution temple to become accomplices. Now they are all being arrested.

Luo Ruji walked into the main hall of the temple and saw the five-tong statues. He immediately ordered: "Go and knock to see if they are copper or iron."

The official banged for a while and said, "The county magistrate is made of wood."

"It's bad luck, chop it up and make firewood." Luo Ruji suddenly became even more angry. Although he was corrupt and abused the people, he was also a scholar and was naturally very disgusted with evil gods.

The statues of gods were pushed down one after another, and the cry in the temple was loud.

A tax collector who turned to the evil god shouted: "I want to report him for meritorious service, I want to report him for meritorious service. The temple minister did not escape, he is hiding in the secret room!"

The officials escorted the man to find a secret room and entered a side hall. I moved the confession in front of the statue. There was a wooden board under the confession. When I opened the board, I found the basement.

"Help! Help!"

While the government official was still climbing down the ladder, he heard a woman's cry for help coming from inside.

When they went in and took a look, they were instantly stunned.

In addition to Miao Zhu and his men who escaped, there were more than ten women in the basement.

These women were all dressed in rags, and some were mentally disturbed.

"County Honor, County Honor..."

After Luo Ruji got the news, he went to the basement to check it out in person, and then said angrily: "Interrogate him on the spot, even if he is beaten to death!"

After some interrogation, the more terrifying facts of the case were quickly learned.

Rabbits don't eat grass near their nests. Those women are not residents of the town, they are all village women from the mountains who were lured here. He was usually imprisoned in the basement for rape and humiliation by the traitors in the temple. If a rich man wanted to kill someone to sacrifice to ghosts and gods, he would kill a mentally disturbed woman and take her organs and sell them to the rich man to make money.

Using clues obtained through torture and confessions, the government officials summoned farmers around the town and asked them to dig in the yard behind the temple.

One after another, more than thirty corpses were unearthed, including the bones of many babies.

From time to time, farmers screamed in fright and threw away their hoes, daring not to dig again.

During the Yuan Dynasty, temples for obscenity were commonplace everywhere. Even if scholars write anti-poetry, the government is too lazy to take care of it. With such a bad rule, why did they severely crack down on the God of Five Powers?

Because the main functions of Wutong God are to deceive women and to obtain partial wealth!

When Zhu Yuanzhang banned prostitution temples, Wutong God was still a key target.

By the way, last year Song Huizong ordered the destruction of evil temples in the Gyeonggi area. Among the three evil gods determined by the imperial court, Wutong God ranked first, General Shi ranked second, and Daji ranked third.

The Wutong God was listed as the number one evil god by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, because his obscene temples often participated in the abduction of women and children.

"Arrests!"

Luo Ruji's original intention was to make money and improve his political achievements, but now he was extremely angry and wanted to take things seriously.

According to the confessions of these guys, the government officials divided into several teams to arrest those wealthy households who sacrificed human animals to ghosts. The number is not large, there are only four households in total. There are so many corpses buried in the temple, which have been accumulated over decades. There were also some corpses. After the woman went crazy, Miao Zhu thought they were in the way, so he killed and buried them.

There were also women who died in childbirth and dug a hole to bury them.

In particular, the bones of babies were all produced by pregnant women. I couldn't find anyone to buy it, so I buried it.

After tossing around the town for several days, we basically determined the situation.

To make money, you have to make money. Luo Ruji ordered: "The land of the obscene temple, as well as the land of the four households, will all be sold to the local rich."

The order given by Ju Ming was to distribute the land to the farmers nearby.

Luo Ruji feels that wealthy households are also farmers, and auctioning land can also be considered as dividing the land, and it can also increase government income.

Well, it doesn't seem to conflict.

Luo Ruji added: "Those imprisoned women who are willing to go home will be given some food rations to let them go back. Those who are unwilling to go home will all be sent to the state government."

Even those with mental disorders, Luo Ruji was too lazy to take care of them, and just threw them all into Ju Ming's head.

In addition, Ju Ming ordered that the case be heard by the Judicial Yuan. After the facts were determined, the wealthy households' homes would be searched. However, Luo Ruji first ransacked his house and then handed it over to the Si Li Yuan. Only he knew how much property he had confiscated, so he could just hand over some of it to the state government.

Other counties were similar, including Su Yuanlao, who also ransacked their homes first and then transferred the prisoners. They all felt that Ju Ming's decree was too troublesome, and it would take two or three months to go back and forth.

Only the magistrate of Xicheng County is the most honest, because he and Ju Ming live in the same city.

The county magistrate of Fukuo is always so angry and lacks autonomy in everything.

Although the execution process was a mess, completely deviating from Ju Ming's decree, and subordinate officials took the opportunity to extort good people.

But on the whole it was effective. All the obscene temples in small towns were destroyed without leaving any trace.

There are basically no temples for obscenity in the mountains, only shamans worship evil gods at home. This thing requires long-term cultivation. The people in the mountains had to report the harvesting and cutting of raw materials, and it was difficult for the county officials to find out clearly.

Groups of criminals, women one by one, and boxes of corpses were transported to Jinzhou City one after another.

Whenever a government official arrives, he will announce it in the city to let the people know the true face of the evil god.

"Prefect, some of the criminals who sacrificed to evil gods were tax collectors who were dismissed in the previous period. Most of them did not commit murders," Huang Gui, the manager of the army, asked, "Do these tax collectors also have to be punished according to the law? Of course they brought it upon themselves, but if they follow the law , their relatives will also sit together. Not only are these relatives unaware, but they also do not benefit from it."

Ju Ming said: "This matter must be dealt with heavily to suppress the evil trend. As long as it is found to be true, we will deal with it. Those who were seriously injured by the county officials will not be treated and will be handed over to the Sentencing Department Qiu Houwen." Behead them. Those who die in the process deserve to be killed. As for those who are slightly injured or not injured, all of them will be mined!"

Ju Ming also hired some miners, but normal miners are paid. And fearing that the miners would be too hard, Ju Ming also stipulated continuous working hours every day.

As for these criminals, they don't need to be treated as human beings. They deserve to be squeezed to death by being given some rations. They deserve to die from exhaustion.

Huang Gui said: "Among the criminal's relatives, there are also women and children."

Ju Ming said: "All men over the age of twelve and under fifteen will be sent to the Criminal Division and handed over to the Criminal Division for processing. All males over the age of fifteen will be punished by mining. As for women, the miners I recruited Some of the Heye iron households were not yet married and asked them to choose one person to start a family. The remaining women, as well as the girls, young girls, and boys under the age of twelve were all shipped to Yangzhou for resettlement."

Huang Gui doesn't matter, these women and children are difficult to deal with. In the middle and early Northern Song Dynasty, they were beaten into official slaves, but in the late Northern Song Dynasty, official slaves were rarely accepted.

Since Zhu Ming has made arrangements, Huang Gui won't have to worry about it.

Adult male criminals were taken to work in the mines.

Ju Ming's personal entourage, as well as the recruited iron smelters and unmarried men came to choose women as wives. They basically select young girls, and only a few pretty women are chosen.

Even Shi Yuangong and Yang Pu each chose a girl.

Shi Yuangong wanted to reassure Ju Ming. Only by having a family in Jinzhou could he gain complete trust.

Yang Pu simply wants to start a family and is happy to choose a wife.

The remaining women and children were temporarily raised in Jinzhou until enough numbers were collected before being transported back to Daming Village. A few months ago, Daming Village recruited a lot of unruly people, many of whom were still unmarried. The ratio of men to women was a bit imbalanced, which was just right to reconcile yin and yang.

There were still some mentally disturbed women who could only be sent to almshouses and asked to do needlework.

Jinzhou was too poor and had a small population, and Ju Ming was unwilling to exploit the people, so he could only use criminals as labor force.